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The gun for Waylander was a result of seeing how simple it would be to add pattern matching to the CodeSnippets/Nano Circular Linear Predictor, simply by replacing the values of ww and speed every iteration. I built it in my first week of Robocoding, so it's my toy. After this I tested it in the PatternMatcherChallenge to get all the bugs out, and by the end it was getting 99%. While still fitting in a micro. I knew RaikoNano had a strong, small movement, so I copy-pasted the code in, and Waylander 0.1 was born. Since then I've added StopAndGo, made the pattern-matcher less picky about patterns, and substituted my own flattener for RaikoNano's. I've also added some anti-rambot code, and a bit of smooth distanceing (my own formula).

What's special about it?

It's my first attempt at a competitive bot, and it ranks pretty high in the MicroRumble?.

Are you sure you want to join that club? It is a very lonely club ;-) Looking at the way you rocketed up to nr 1 (and beat pulverized me for outranking RaikoMicro), I think you are able to find those points. Alas I have no idea what the weak/to be improved parts of Waylander are, but you are smart enough to think of some yourself. Congrats for being nr 1 and good luck in your hunt. -- GrubbmGait

I know that I can improve my score against MirrorMicro by decreasing my favourite distance, but that weakens me against almost everyone else. Also, that loss against WeekendObsession doesn't look good - I'm guessing that my flattener didn't enable in one of the matches. But what makes me lose against him is one of the things that really raised my score against everyone else, so I'll have to think of something else. Ah well. Here's a comparison between 0.3.2 and 0.1.9, my first version to get above 1960. [2]. I didn't think (then) that I would be able to increase my score at all, but it just goes to show. =) -- Skilgannon